CRITERION: Ingmar Bergman's "The Virgin Spring"

Wes Craven's opening salvo, "The Last House on the Left", (which was recently, inexplicably, remade) does emanate from Ingmar Bergman's "The Virgin Spring". You don't often hear of Bergman quoted in Freddy Kruegger's ancestry, but "The Virgin Spring" is a tight horror story of its own. The dread mounts in unforgiving blacks and whites- (you know the story: a young girl is raped and killed, the evildoers end up accidentally taking shelter at the girl's house, and the parents proceed to avenge the death.) Great as this movie is, what jumps to my attention is the gradual loss of cosmic interest in the three versions.
In the 1960 film, Bergman's question is: How can a just God watch over these horrors and do NOTHING? Bergman's sly answer may be that there is simply no God, but note that the movie ends with a miracle.
In the 1972 film, Craven's question is: How can our SOCIETY allow this? Craven's answer is that the kids may not be alright, but it's because the parents are kind of fucked up too. (Which, again, forecasts the twist in "Nightmare on Elm Street": your parents MADE the monsters that haunt your dreams.)
In the 2009 film, the only question is: How much water can we pump into the fountain soda before people realize they're being ripped at the concession stand?